Former Education Secretary BetsyDeVos deserves a bureaucratic Purple Heart. Maybe two, writes SecretsBedard.
One for overcoming the hatred ginned up against her by the nation’s teachers unions and liberal politicians before she was even confirmed in 2017. The other for taking on a Department of Education permanent staff set against her policies and a White House that did little to help her.
She recalls in her new book, Hostages No More, to be released Tuesday, that Sen. Cory Booker , who she had worked with to improve Newark schools, voted against her with a simple thumbs down. “Very disappointing,” she said in an interview. And the White House didn’t help much. As with other departments, President Donald Trump’s personnel team took months to fill top jobs, obsessing over tweets seen as anti-Trump and trying to push inexperienced supporters into top jobs.
“Arguably, never have a Cabinet secretary’s policies been so distinct from their demonic image, epitomizing the immense disconnect between symbols and realities in today’s Washington,” said the American Enterprise Institute.
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